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Branding, Hand Drawn, Hand Lettering, Tutorials

How to Create Your Own Custom Rubber Stamp

Happy Tuesday! Yesterday, my second Skillshare class, ‘Get Inked! How to Create Your Own Custom Rubber Stamp‘ was published! In the class, I take you through all the steps of getting your own custom rubber stamp made by an online manufacturer – one I’ve used over 20 times and still continue to use (and I’m not even affiliated with them! I just love their stamps 🙂 ). We walk through how to take any artwork – whether digital or hand drawn and convert it into a perfect (affordable) custom rubber stamp you’ll have for years. To celebrate, today I’m sharing (only with my blog readers and YouTube audience) the second video from the class – a video you wouldn’t get to see unless you’re enrolled in the full course. I hope you enjoy it! If you’ve never checked out Skillshare before, you can get 30 days of free premium membership which will also get you full access to my class by clicking here.

May 12, 2015

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Freebies, Photoshop, Tutorials

How to Create and Apply a Halftone Texture in Photoshop

The other week on every-tuesday’s facebook page, Valarie asked how to replicate the texture seen on this ice cream cone. This week, I’m here to deliver the answer! In this tutorial, we’ll create our own halftone texture, then apply it to a similar ice cream cone to replicate the same effect. As a bonus, I’m including the ice cream cone used in the tutorial as a psd file for free so you can follow along exactly if you’d like. Click read more for the download and to see how it’s all done!

March 24, 2015

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Tutorials

How to Create a Holiday Lights Pattern Brush in Adobe Illustrator

Driving through our neighborhood on the way home Friday night, I couldn’t help but notice the vibe in our subdivision had changed…holiday lights were going up! I love this time of year; it just felt like it came sooner than usual this year. To ring in the start of the holiday decorating season, in this week’s tutorial we create a string of vector holiday lights, then create a pattern brush out of them for unlimited hang-them-where-and-how-long-you-want-them use 🙂 Let’s get started!

November 18, 2014

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Freebies, Patterns, Photoshop, Textures, Web Design

Freebie: Handmade Paper Patterns

Happy Tuesday! This Tuesday is one of my favorite Tuesdays because I’m spending it with my parents (haven’t seen them since Christmas)! They made the 17 hour trek from upstate NY to help me and Spence fix up some minor things that our new home’s inspection report found. So thankful in times like these for a dad with super handyman skills who likes to drive long distances 🙂 Anyway, in honor of things created + performed by hand, I present you with two awesome handmade paper patterns this week!

October 7, 2014

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Photoshop, Tutorials

How to Create a Pattern Fade in Illustrator + Photoshop

Happy Tuesday! If you’re a designer, chances are at some point you’ll get a request to make something feel rich or luxurious. Adding a pattern fade is a quick way to add that richer feeling, so in this week’s tutorial, we’ll create a pattern and add a fade using Illustrator + Photoshop using a different method for each. Let’s get started!

September 30, 2014

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Freebies, Photoshop, Web Design

Freebie: Geometric Photoshop Patterns

Happy Tuesday! This week’s freebie is a set of 4 geometric seamless photoshop patterns! Download includes all 4 as a photoshop .pat file, as well as 1024x1024px tileable jpgs of each pattern (perfect for websites!).

June 3, 2014

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Photoshop, Tutorials

How to Create a Seamless Photoshop Pattern

Last week I gave away a pack of 3 recycled paper textures for free. In this quick tip tutorial, I’ll show you how I made them! We’ll start with the scan of the paper and we’ll use an easy trick to make any pattern seamless in photoshop. Let’s get started!

May 1, 2014

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Freebies, Patterns, Photoshop, Textures

Freebie: 3 Recycled Paper Textures

Recycled paper textures have always been one of my favorite backgrounds to enhance a design. Today I’m sharing 3 of my newest paper textures and patterns as a freebie! The download includes all three textures as a photoshop 72dpi rgb pattern file, a photoshop 300dpi cmyk pattern file and all three patterns as tileable 300dpi cmyk jpgs and tileable 72dpi rgb jpgs.

April 23, 2014

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Freebies, Patterns, Textures

Freebie: Speckled Paper Patterns

Happy Tuesday! Thought I’d start the week off with some free paper patterns! Download includes all three environmental speckled papers (natural, off white, + white) as pattern files for Photoshop CS3 or higher, as well as jpgs of each, sized 1024px by 1024px.

October 29, 2013

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